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Thursday, December 2, 2010

Cards for Church: How?

Part 4 of a series on Church Card Ministries

Now it is time to get ready for a cardmaking session. Gather all of your crafters!

Our cardmaking group is open to everybody! We have people who only ever ink a stamp at our monthly gathering, Stampin' Up demonstrators, people who have been published and one wonderful lady who has won a national contest! Our challenge is satisfying all levels of crafters and allowing them to successfully create cards.

We make sure that we have a variety cards to fit all levels and to interest all cardmakers.

We have cards that work for experienced crafters. This card looks fairly simple but it involves heat embossing (the bird is embossed in copper) and watercoloring. Plus there is a bow and a lot of people panic when they see a bow.

Here's another card that is a little tough - rock-n-rolled image, border punch, and a line of plants behind the image.

We have cards with new techniques. I have used this looped ribbon technique before (see this post for instructions) but I have not taken it to our cardmaking group yet.

We try to have cards that use fun new toys. I recently purchased this die set from Clear Dollar Stamps. Check out their display of all of the fun uses. The card also uses a coordinating stamp set from Clear Dollar.

Be sure to remember absolute beginners. This card does have a Cuttlebugged background but I find that new stampers get very excited when they run something through the Cuttlebug and see the texture! This card just involves a basic stamp, an embossing folder, two punches and a simple knot in the ribbon.

We ask that each designer create card kits with all the supplies pre-cut and ready to go. Usually a card's worth of supplies fit into a pencil box or an oversized pencil box. (FYI - I always take my Cuttlebug machine along with me because I use so many embossing folders or die cuts.) Don't forget punches, special adhesives, etc.

Pre-cut and ready to go!

Boxed into an oversize pencil box.

Here's another fairly simple card. This card has some coloring with Copics. Our group LOVES to color. I think it takes them back to their childhood! Cards with coloring are always the first ones that are made. This card also uses a "cheater's bow" because nobody that I work with likes to make real bows! ("Cheater's bow" instructions follow the pictures.)

I'm looking at this picture and
realized that I didn't add the
stamps. I guess I better do that
before I box everything up!!

Boxed into a regular size pencil box.

Here are the pictures describing how to do a "cheater's bow". This would definitely be better in video format but I don't have the ability to make a good video!!

Cut a strip of ribbon that fits across
your card front plus another few inches.
Tie the first part of a knot...just
as if you were tying your shoes.

Before you tighten the knot, slip a
piece of ribbon through the knot.
(The turquoise is just for contrast!)

Tighten the knot. You can then trim the
edges of the "bow" piece. Wrap the
ends of the long piece around the
back of your paper and adhere with
a piece of tape.

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Blue and Brown Watercolored Bird: (Set 265 for my 2010 goal of making sure that all of my SU sets see ink.)

6 comments:

Thanks, Kim, for your series about card ministries...I'll be back tomorrow for more. This is niggling at my brain about doing this at our church, but even with our large church there is a sum total of two of us who stamp. I'm not sure where to start or if it is the right time right now. However, I appreciate greatly what you have to say about planning...it's great!

I have had one workshop for christmas cards at my church. It took me over 3 yrs to decide to attempt this! I was overwhelmed when I had 10 people sign up and 8 of them were new to stamping/cardmaking but now they want more!Thanks for the encouragment to take this step...

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I live in Parker, Colorado with my husband, two teen boys, a dog and two cats. I began my adult life as an insurance actuary. I was then blessed to be able to spend 15 years raising my boys during which time I discovered stamping! Now I have obtained a second college degree and have begun working as an accountant for my town. Being surrounded by men at home and being surrounded by numbers work, is it any wonder that I am passionately in love with creating cards - a rainbow of colors, glitter, ribbons and stamps, and a wonderful online community!?

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